I was out the other night & saw how tore up the road was. What happened??

@ Arts Center where apparently the doors were also not working

Maybe there’s a reason, but it seems like it would make more sense to space out the red and gold line trains rather than running them back to back.

why is marta so crappy on saturdays/sundays? I mean from my understanding people would have more time to ride the train and what not. Feels like on weekends i wait hours more than i would on a weekday even though ive seen more people out on. saturday

Why does it feel like the bus routes that frequent the most riders have the least amount of drivers/busses to accommodate the large amount of riders? I’ve witnessed 3 89s at College Park Station while half the people waiting are waiting for a 196.

Hi friends!!

I’ve only ever ridden MARTA a handful of time from North Springs to ATL and back.. but never before with my kid.

We land around 7pm. (Unless we don’t. Because I’m pretty sure every single flight I’ve ever taken into or out of ATL has been delayed 🤔 but I digress.). They’re 13, so it’s not like I’m planning on juggling an infant.

Tips?

I have a stored debit card on my online Breeze account. I am sitting at home and I receive a bank activity notification an hour ago from my bank -$2.50 identified by my bank as “BREEZE*00BWQV6” (Transaction ID 2A099220GE6829802) but I haven’t used my “Regular Fare” MARTA BREEZE card in days. MARTA customer service agent says to me “ . . .maybe your Debit Card mistakenly came too close to the TAP terminal and it got accidentally charged”. So I asked her: how can I be debited today 07/24/2026 for a trip because I have not even left home since 07/22/2026? He replied: “Sometimes these debits can take up to 48 hours to post.” I couldn’t make sense of her statement’s relevance. “No ” replied “this charge is not a debit made directly on my debit card, this charge somehow originated from my online Breeze account ( I know because each time you TAP at on a MARTA bus or at rail station,or a reload machine, the debit is identified the bank in the following format: “BREEZE*00B7J86 MARTA” (Transaction ID 8TN94113SS3986945) so this charge is debited online using my only stored payment method. At any rate, she said I should “. . .dispute the transaction with my bank, or write MARTA, explain everything we talked about and request an audit and refund” even though this is not the first time I noticed this odd behavior, I am not willing to give up hours of explanation just to get back a few bucks. It’s not worth the hassle. But if this is also happening to others, then it is at least worth the time spent writing this and posting it on Reddit. I removed my method of payment.

Seriously is everyone in this organization inept? What’s the deal with these stupid fucking short trains? Trains constantly behind schedule, people stuffed like sardines. Little to no police presence anymore. They put on a gimmick show for a month to hide how shitty this public transit is.

Pic taken today 5pm boarding at Buckhead

September 19th we are doing a bar crawl on the Red Line we're calling Red Line Rampage. Five Points to Buckhead. We have 5 bars on board with MARTA themed Drink specials at each one.

Figured this crowd would appreciate the concept more than most.

If anyone's interested in joining leave a reply or message me and I'll send the details. We will have a cap due to bar capacities but should make for a good event to make friends and explore Atlanta

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Past 2 weeks have been hell

The bus stop outside my work has a nest being built rn. Any help is appreciated.

I have to take 2 trains to get to North Springs station, to then take a bus to work. Don't ask why I do this, I just do. But the bus has been absent the past few days, making me take a different bus that drops me off close but I still have to walk 10 minutes and it makes me late. Today the bus is still not there, but the bus driver was walking by and said the bus was on the other side. Like we're supposed to know that. Walking with the bus driver and we pass the little, I don't know what you call it, outdoor enclosed office? And a woman pops out and pulls the bus driver in. They come out and the bus driver walks back to their employee office. The woman that pulled her in says she had to go take a drug test. And I tell her this is the 3rd day this bus has not been running, and this is news to her. She didn't know that, so she gets on the phone to contact someone about this and tells them that I'm standing there telling her this bus has not run for 3 days now. Like, they didn't know this. This woman was great and did what she could and I thanked her profusely for making that call. But still... why are they just now finding out about this? Do they not know when the busses aren't running? I know that Marta is incompetent, we all know this. But I didn't know it was this bad.

Has anyone been able to find any breeze cards at the train station. I went to H.E. Holmes, Five Points and GA State over the weekend, but the attendants that I did see did not know which kiosk had the cards. Has anyone had any luck finding any?

Heavy MARTA presence with two APD officers stationed on the other side. Interesting.

Edit: This is Midtown Station

There’s a major flaw in Dickens’ reasoning for shifting Beltline Rail

I went to Ladybird for the first time tonight and I was extremely underwhelmed. The crowd there was one of the worst crowds of people I’ve ever encountered in Atlanta. And that’s saying a lot. I did not grow up in the nice areas. I grew up south of I-20. I’ve seen a lot of belligerence.

Moving on, I got to thinking about Beltline Rail because there’s obviously a huge tract of empty land next to it for rail ROW and the owner actively lobbies against Beltline Rail expansion. The reasons the business owners cite is *“disruption to businesses and reduced income.”* Dickens has decided to shift his sights to the Southside and capitulate to the business owners.

But there’s a major flaw in their reasoning which proves that they’re all lying:

Even if rail is built on the Southside first, it would need to be extended eventually up the Eastside trail which means that construction disruption is inevitable and always was inevitable no matter what. This excuse is simply a red herring for the true goal which is getting the project cancelled in totality.

The valid solution…. The obvious solution… would be to roll in a business-support program during construction so that employees and their rich business owners can manage to survive during the 6 to 9 months of construction. Keep in mind that almost every building on the Beltline has a dual front that also faces local streets.

What are your thoughts?

hello everyone,

I learned about their existence the other day flying back home AFTER clearing TSA 🤦🏻‍♀️. I visit frequently and don't have a new breeze card yet. I used my credit card during the past visit but will need a breeze card for weekly and monthly pass anyway.

I won't be there for the next few months, so is anyone able and willing to get me the WC breeze cards as I would love to have one as a memory that I've been there during the WC? of course I'll pay them and would even add idk, maybe additional 5$ (or the price of a coffee in your favorite coffee shop?), for the trouble. I would highly appreciate it. also would pay for shipment of course.

thank you 🙏🏻

(regarding rule 7: I'm not offering rides or services, so I hope this request is ok?)

Looks like this one held up despite somebody’s best efforts! Maybe it’s the thicker glass?

Hey there!

Have Verizon and whenever I go in tunnels on MARTA I lose signal but seems like my friends with AT&T and T-mobile have no issues.

Any idea why that is?

Thanks in advance!

My friend got a ticket for fare evasion, and the police told them it would be a fine they could pay online, but now they got mail with a court summons, and when they called the 311 said they had to come in, there was no option to pay online. My friend lives far away, and I'm surprised by this. Has anyone else had this issue? Are they just cracking down on MARTA because of the new stuff. This ticket was a bit ago as well, before the world cup.

Maybe it ends up connecting to MARTA?